1. He must make a decent living from other artists covering his songs. 2. An urbane Chicagoan is importuned to cover songs from the Mississippi hill country, better to tickle the primitivist new tastes of a white blues audience. 3. Artists ranging from the Black Crowes to Charlie Rich to Taj Mahal to Robert Cray have covered his songs. 4. As with the Grateful Dead, every show is different and can veer from original material to cover songs. 5. After moving to Nashville, he cut two solo albums and had songs covered by Jerry Lee Lewis, Carlene Carter, Perry Como and others. 6. All of the Stones were hardcore archivists in the early years, as they covered songs by the likes of Sam Cooke, Solomon Burke, and Otis Redding. 7. Brown is one of the most sought-after of studio musicians, and his songs have been covered by everyone who is anyone in the folk-country world. 8. Contreras and his partner, Jimmy Greco, had listened to the only other English-language album Lee has recorded, primarily consisting of cover songs. 9. During his tenure, Wilder had songs covered by Aaron Neville, Sheena Easton, Patti LaBelle and others. 10. Harper often covers Hendrix songs in his shows. |